{"id":1094,"date":"2016-11-11T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2016-11-11T18:54:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:54:20","slug":"west-end-lovettsville-1915-postcard-found-by-dick-hickman-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/west-end-lovettsville-1915-postcard-found-by-dick-hickman-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"“West End, Lovettsville” 1915 Postcard Found By Dick Hickman (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This “West End, Lovettsville” postcard, with a 1915 postmark, was found in a Harrisonburg, Va. antique shop by Dick Hickman, who grew up in the house on the right, and whose mother, Sue Wire Hickman (1911-2000) was born in that house. Mr. Hickman purchased the postcard and has generously donated it to the Lovettsville Museum.<\/p>\n

In 1915, the unknown photographer was standing approximately in the middle of the street in front of today’s 7-11 convenience store, facing east, long before the BB&T bank building and the former post office were\u00a0constructed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The postcard shows on the right: the Hickman house, the St. James parsonage, and the St. James church with its steeple.\u00a0 On the left is the “Souder farmhouse,” now an apartment building.<\/p>\n

The postcard, with a one cent stamp postmarked Lovettsville on\u00a0May 12, 1915, is addressed to Mrs. Vallie Compher, 512 W. South Street, Frederick City, Maryland, and reads, “Dear Cousin, Received your card. Was glad to hear from you. \u00a0We look for you and Claud[e] up before you move. \u00a0I hope Mr. Compher likes his new home. \u00a0By this time we are going to look for you all over to Decoration.* \u00a0Your cousin, Elizabeth.”<\/p>\n

Thank you, Dick Hickman!<\/p>\n

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Ancestry.com and Find-A-Grave show Claude Trapnell Compher and his wife, Vallie Virginia Virtz Compher, in Frederick, MD.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/person.ancestry.com\/tree\/18795110\/person\/20410701031\/facts<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60287649<\/p>\n

http:\/\/person.ancestry.com\/tree\/18795110\/person\/20410708175\/facts<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26057657<\/p>\n

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*Elizabeth\u00a0was likely referring to Decoration Day, the original name of Memorial Day.<\/em><\/p>\n

See also<\/em>\u00a0Lovettsville Memorial Day Ceremony Keynote Address: \u201cThe Origins of Decoration Day\u201d by Edward Spannaus (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n

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